The Ghost Howls

JUNE 29, 2020

Original image by Oculus). Oculus kills the Go and opens to content on Quest. In the end, the time of the Oculus Go has come. Devices like Oculus Quest , Pico Neo 2 , and Vive Focus Plus have proven that 6DOF VR is more interesting and has far more retention. Top news of the week.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The group has spent the better part of a decade collecting and cataloging an obscene amount of visual data from all over the planet. There are around 175 cities with full, 3D data, and over 600 ‘urban cores’ as well.” Google Earth VR is one of the first and, so far, it is definitely the best.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

Ultimately Oculus stole headlines at CES — for both better and worse — with the launch of pre-orders for the Rift. Oculus had already set everyone’s expectations. The $599 price tag for Vive’s biggest rival kept people guessing about just how much the more fully featured room-scale headset would really cost.

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Cats and VR

MARCH 26, 2018

GDC 2018 was definitely not my first rodeo at a major gaming event and I have seen my fair share of the gaming dog and pony show. Sure Oculus and HTC get articles written about them but that is mostly for the hardware side. We are taking all the useful data from our previous games and applying them to CREED."

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In the first instance, a creator familiar with Unity and 3D modelling softwares can create an XR scene and then upload to STYLY through our Unity Plugin , where a multiformat version of the scene will automatically be created and hosted, allowing anyone to view the scene using a VR HMD, AR smartphone or even WebXR through their browser.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Definitely look forward to our discussion. Brandon: Yeah, we definitely have a lot of fun here, and we used to take the simulators home for weekend testing, but kind of got to the point where we play with it enough at the office. Brandon: Yeah, there's definitely a variety of products out there. Alan: I'm really excited.

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

Definitely look forward to our discussion. Brandon: Yeah, we definitely have a lot of fun here, and we used to take the simulators home for weekend testing, but kind of got to the point where we play with it enough at the office. Brandon: Yeah, there's definitely a variety of products out there. Alan: I'm really excited.

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

Definitely look forward to our discussion. Brandon: Yeah, we definitely have a lot of fun here, and we used to take the simulators home for weekend testing, but kind of got to the point where we play with it enough at the office. Brandon: Yeah, there's definitely a variety of products out there. Alan: I'm really excited.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 23, 2016

In June 2016, we finished multiple Unity Demos to demonstrate what Dexmo is capable of. It is very easy to integrate the lighthouse tracking system into Dexmo, and we will definitely look into that. We built some Unity plugins that is somewhat similar to the Vive. So what’s the next step for VR? People get it.

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VRWorld

JUNE 7, 2016

We started development using Oculus Development Kits (DK1), and our breakthrough came when we started to show our code on DK2’s with different business leads. In our team, we now love the (HTC) Vive and we’re certain Oculus will catch up. TH: Front end engine; we worked with both Unity and Unreal Engine on different experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

monthly connected headsets only on Steam (so this doesn’t consider Oculus Store users and PSVR users), and t he year-over-year growth is +75%. He said that only on Christmas day, people spent $5M on the Oculus Store , and we can expect that most of this money was spent on Quest. So, take SuperData’s data with a grain of salt.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

References found in the Oculus Quest 2 firmware by users Reggy04 and Basti564 highlight how the Quest 2 Pro should have: Eyes tracking Facial expressions tracking Eye relief knob Granular IPD adjustment External charging station. And are also good for data harvesting cough cough cough. Top news of the week. Image by Facebook).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. Not to mention the millions spent on marketing , especially in the US (Oculus was one of the sponsors of NBA, for instance).

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Alex: I guarantee that most of Unity's investors are not going into the engine to build their own demos. Alex: Huge news.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Alex: I guarantee that most of Unity's investors are not going into the engine to build their own demos. Alex: Huge news.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Alex: I guarantee that most of Unity's investors are not going into the engine to build their own demos. Alex: Huge news.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Sony believes in VR, and we definitely believe at some point in the future, VR will represent a meaningful component of interactive entertainment. In the meanwhile, the community is still rioting about the Facebook login , and /r/Oculus should now be called /r/FacebookBannedMyAccount because this is the only topic people are talking about.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

Roblox CEO hints at the Oculus Quest as a future platform. And among these platforms onto which the game could be ported in the future, he has also mentioned the Oculus Quest. I told in my analysis that Pico could kickstart the consumer VR ecosystem in China , and the first data may point in that sense. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

One of the videos from Oculus Connect 5 that stuck in my mind till tody is when Michael Abrash showed a real space transformed into a virtual one that has exactly the same shape, but a different mood. In that moment, I regret not having visited it before. SyncReality’s Vision. it is a bit clunky, but it works.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The image above, clearly an homage to the legendary Unity Cube , demonstrates the position and orientation of optical sensors across different surfaces of the object… this would ensure that sensors are always available as the object is turned or moved. Image by Rob Cole). model Normals [ -0.0380270146, -0.700318217, -0.712817252 ].

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

He’s worked on the tech since before the Oculus Rift was invented and, with his team, since released some of the best games for it. Learnings Of Early Access From ‘Raw Data’ When? Cass Everitt (Oculus), Joe Ludwig (Valve), Nick Whiting (Epic Games), Devin Reimer (Owlchemy Labs), Yuval Boger (Sensics, Inc.),

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APRIL 7, 2020

You know, it's important as cool as Hololens 2, is -- and it does definitely open up opportunities in terms of training, because it is so natural -- but we understand that people need to have different devices to support them at different times, for what they're trying to achieve. Bharat: It definitely feels like it. It's crazy.

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APRIL 7, 2020

You know, it's important as cool as Hololens 2, is -- and it does definitely open up opportunities in terms of training, because it is so natural -- but we understand that people need to have different devices to support them at different times, for what they're trying to achieve. Bharat: It definitely feels like it. It's crazy.

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Leapmotion

MAY 3, 2015

We at Thomas Street have been eyeing the Oculus Rift for quite some time, paying particular attention to demos featuring novel interfaces. Outcome aside, working with the Oculus Rift is, you know, working with the Oculus Rift , so the experience was a ton of fun. Early Unity experiment using a button menu.

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APRIL 7, 2020

You know, it's important as cool as Hololens 2, is -- and it does definitely open up opportunities in terms of training, because it is so natural -- but we understand that people need to have different devices to support them at different times, for what they're trying to achieve. Bharat: It definitely feels like it. It's crazy.

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DECEMBER 29, 2020

But the COVID-19 pandemic and the year's other trials have definitely left their mark on the Metaverse (and MetaVRse), for good and ill. It's yeah, it's been a hell of a year, definitely the sort of year that could drive one to drink. If there's something you want to learn about, we'll definitely do that. That was a year ago.

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DECEMBER 29, 2020

But the COVID-19 pandemic and the year's other trials have definitely left their mark on the Metaverse (and MetaVRse), for good and ill. It's yeah, it's been a hell of a year, definitely the sort of year that could drive one to drink. If there's something you want to learn about, we'll definitely do that. That was a year ago.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2018

It is one of those places where people look for 3D models , alongside other marketplaces like the Unity Asset Store, Google Poly or Turbosquid. Do you think that services that sell good 3D models for a low price as the Unity Asset Store or Google Poly are hurting the profitability of 3D models? Believe it or not, this is a 3D model.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Meta Quest 3 (left) and Apple Vision Pro (right) We once asked Oculus executive Jason Rubin whether his company was considering a tethered compute model. He's what he said: "That’s a model we’ve definitely explored. Given this only happens in Unity Full Space apps, I suspect this can be solved in future software.

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DECEMBER 29, 2020

But the COVID-19 pandemic and the year's other trials have definitely left their mark on the Metaverse (and MetaVRse), for good and ill. It's yeah, it's been a hell of a year, definitely the sort of year that could drive one to drink. If there's something you want to learn about, we'll definitely do that. That was a year ago.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2019

From exporting to editing, making great 360 content could definitely be a chore. There’s the stabilization at the capture level, which is essentially just using the gyro and the data to stabilize that in capture. I definitely want that! You see Facebook with Oculus. Now I’ve got social media post in seconds.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2019

From exporting to editing, making great 360 content could definitely be a chore. There’s the stabilization at the capture level, which is essentially just using the gyro and the data to stabilize that in capture. I definitely want that! You see Facebook with Oculus. Now I’ve got social media post in seconds.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2019

From exporting to editing, making great 360 content could definitely be a chore. There's the stabilization at the capture level, which is essentially just using the gyro and the data to stabilize that in capture. I definitely want that! You see Facebook with Oculus. Now I've got social media post in seconds. Alan: Yeah.

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DECEMBER 2, 2019

So we target single player, we look at data, we look at the creation of that content, we look at integrating that with enterprise systems. I hadn’t experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. Alan: I’ve got my Oculus Quest sitting right in front of me. ” So there’s definitely been a shift.

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DECEMBER 2, 2019

So we target single player, we look at data, we look at the creation of that content, we look at integrating that with enterprise systems. I hadn’t experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. Alan: I’ve got my Oculus Quest sitting right in front of me. ” So there’s definitely been a shift.

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Leapmotion

JULY 21, 2015

Our team’s video got shared on /r/oculus and led to a feature on Wired. At a high level the architecture had a few different modules running asynchronously: Libraries used: SFML , LeapGL, Autowiring , Eigen , FreeImage , Glew , Leap Motion SDK, Oculus SDK. The window capture and layout could definitely use some work.

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APRIL 21, 2020

And we later did a project called Zombie Guns Raptor with Oculus and Oculus Go, Gear VR. And that was definitely a new way to to consume media. They have to know that everything they put into that building is actually based on facts, or based off a photograph, or based off satellite data. Does it come from CAD?

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